3.1 An example of a musicological document

Some texts contain music examples. These texts are musicological
treatises, songbooks, or manuals like this. Such texts can be made by
hand, simply by importing a PostScript figure into the word processor.
However, there is an automated procedure to reduce the amount of work
involved in HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo and DocBook documents.

A script called lilypond-book will extract the music fragments,
format them, and put back the resulting notation. Here we show a small
example for use with LaTeX. The example also contains explanatory
text, so we will not comment on it further.

Input

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
Documents for \verb+lilypond-book+ may freely mix music and text.
For example,
\begin{lilypond}
\relative c' {
c2 e2 \tuplet 3/2 { f8 a b } a2 e4
}
\end{lilypond}
Options are put in brackets.
\begin{lilypond}[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]
c'4 f16
\end{lilypond}
Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
\verb+\lilypondfile+.
\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{screech-and-boink.ly}
(If needed, replace @file{screech-and-boink.ly} by any @file{.ly} file
you put in the same directory as this file.)
\end{document}

Processing

Save the code above to a file called ‘lilybook.lytex’, then in a
terminal run

Running lilypond-book and latex creates a lot of
temporary files, which would clutter up the working directory. To
remedy this, use the ‘--output=dir’ option. It will create
the files in a separate subdirectory ‘dir’.

Finally the result of the LaTeX example shown above.1 This finishes the tutorial section.

Output

Documents for lilypond-book may freely mix music and text.
For example,

Options are put in brackets.

c'4 f16

Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
\lilypondfile.

If a tagline is required, either default or custom, then the
entire snippet must be enclosed in a \book { } construct.